The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1887-06-17
LABOR NEWS Alsp MoTrs.

The second annual convention Of the
National Butchers association opened
Wednesday in Chicago.
Quite q number Of New England
manufacturers are putting money into
small houses for their employees.
The bricklayers' scale was signed
last Saturday by twelve out Of twenty
SIX firms in the Pittsburg district.
The Tailors' Progressive Union of
America has issued an urgent appeal
for better support Of their union label.
The membership of the X. of l.. in
New York state is reported al III. sos,
distributed among 6S4 local assem-
blies.
The first colored man to get a job as
conductor ON horse car is working ON
the Broadway line, New York.
The Plasterers' union of Philadelphia
Wednesday elected delegates to the
National convention, to be held in st.
Louis next month.
After considering the matter care
fully for q year the leaders of District
No. 40 have determined to push the
boycott on the Third Avenue railway.
A telegram from Pittsburg says the
General Executive committee of the
Knights of Labor has decided to per.
sonally investigate the strike in the
coke regions.
j. G. Wheat, master workman of the
Iowa State assembly, is announced as
a candidate for general master work.
man in case Mr.. Powderly should re-
sign in October.
The girls who work as clerks in
stores, where their employers do not
provide for them suitable seats, are
being murdered slowly through stand
ing for long hours.
The bill. introduced by Senator
Worth, of Brooklyn, giving the United
Labor party of Kings county their
share of inspectors of election and can
vassers passed the New York senate
Wednesday.
Evansville, Ind, the great center of
the Indiana and western Kentucky coal
field, is booming. Tho city is built
over two veins Of soft coal, which are
worked night and day by ten different
shafts.
An exchange tells us the s.master
stair builders of Cincinnati have organ
lied an association to prevent any cut
ting in stair rates." We think it time
the journeymen stair builders of Gin
clnnati followed the example of their
employers.
A good many New England wooden
mills have been flooded with high
water. Some eastern textile mills are
running three to four hours overtime.
New yarn mills are being built at Fall
River. A number of strikes are con-
stantly occurring among the spinners
and weavers.
Rradstreet's gives the gross earnings
Of th%irty-eight railroads for the first
three months of 1887 in contrast with
the earnings of the same roads for the
same periods in 1886. Aggregate
earnings in first quarter of 1886, $52.-
517,429; for first quarter of 1887, $751;
736,219-or 1876 per cent. increase.
The displacement of man labor by
boy labor is o serious and growing
evil. We are of the opinion that it is
doing q great deal to produce the DIM
mutton of the marriage rate. Men
hesitate to take upon themselves the
burden of a family when they are likely
to be displaced by a cheap boy just
1 when that burden is heayiest.-Cleve.
land Workman.
A union molder from England Wis.
tied Switzerland last year and urged
the molders of that country to organ.
ize. Their union now has twelve
branches, including about two-thirds
of all the molders in the country. Steps
are being taken for the utilization of all
the Iron Molders' unions of Europe and
America, interchange of cards and co.
operation.
The strengthening of the provisions
of the ten-hour law in Rhodk Jsland
has been a matter of deep concern to
Senator Howard, but other labor mea.
sures SO engaged his time that he could
not give it the consideration he desired.
Recently, however, he prepared a bill,
which was reported upon f~avorably by
the committee. The subject was dis.
cussed and amended in the senate, but
the Fall river senator has succeeded il
Withdrawing the five minutes allowed
for the starting up of the machinery
and in preventing running of overtime
for steppages of less than thirty min
utes. Penalties are provided for viola
lions. The Fall river mills are the onl,
ones to make up for lost time. so tina
the bill will be practically a local on,
is passed BY the house.
The brewers union in New Haven
Conn.,. has succeeded in getting thes,
concessions from the boss brewers: Gil
a week for first-class help, who wer,
paid $14; $15 a week for key washers
who were paid s12 to sl4; Us to sls
according to efficiency, for drivers
who were paid $40 to $lSi $3 to $50,
per day for coopers. who were paid 81,
q week. Ten hours are to constitut
a days work.
The labor agitations in Great Britail
are assuming larger dimensions. pa,
ticularly in mining, iron-working an,
in he engineering trades. The. Goa
miners In Northumberland have bee
on strike for several months for III pc